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Keywords: Hartekamp.JPG View of villa Hartekamp in Heemstede from the Leiden-Haarlem canal towpath This villa was once the home of George Clifford for a while patron of the young botanist Carl Linnaeus This is the place where Linnaeus stayed for over two years from September 1735 to October 1737 and where he wrote his Hortus Cliffortianus He had been introduced to Clifford a wealthy Amsterdam banker by Herman Boerhaave of Leiden Linnaeus had come to visit Boerhaave at that time an old man famous for his work on botany as Voltaire had done before him Clifford collected rare plants as a hobby and asked Linnaeus to come to live at his mansion as his physician and superintendent of his garden Boerhaave had a summer home on the Haarlem-Leiden canal as did Clifford and they would have traveled to each others' gardens by trekschuit a popular Dutch narrow boat for passenger traffic Today little remains of the garden but a few American oaks and pines among the dense woods Zicht op villa Hartekamp in Heemstede vanaf de Leidsevaart De villa was ooit de buitenplaats van George Clifford enige tijd de beschermheer van de jonge botanicus Carl Linnaeus In dit buiten verbleef Linnaeus ruim twee jaar van september 1735 tot oktober 1737 en hij schreef er de Hortus Cliffortianus Hij was voorgesteld aan Clifford een schatrijke Amsterdamse bankier door Herman Boerhaave uit Leiden Linnaeus had Boerhaave bezocht in die tijd al een oude man beroemd om zijn plantkundig werk zoals Voltaire vóór hem ook al had gedaan Clifford verzamelde zeldzame planten en vroeg Linnaeus om bij hem te komen wonen als lijfarts en als opzichter van zijn plantencollectie Tegenwoordig is er op een paar bomen na weinig over van de eens zo beroemde tuin 2007-01-22 Own Jane023 Hartekamp cropped jpg Hartekamp Trekvaart Haarlem-Leiden Hortus Cliffortianus
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